Tik Tok Word Block

Tic Tok is very shrewdly discouraging talk of the Epstein files by censoring them, essentially shining a big, carbon arc spotlight on a stage display of sparklers spelling out, "Epstein," in the middle of a row of dancing girls holding placards that spell out, "D-O-N-'-T--L-O-O-K--A-T--T-H-I-S-!" with an AI Lou Rawls lowly crooning, "No no no no, don't look here at thissssss."

As we all would agree, telling the average American they can't have something always stops 'em dead in their tracks, so problem solved.

Sigh.

This is one reason I have some measure of hope: for the most part, the MAGA ecosystem, for all their plotting and conniving, couldn't pour piss out of a boot. Someone, somewhere, always gives the game away in the stupidest fucking way possible (see also: Miller, Stephen: "Plenary Powers of the Executive/Quiet Part Out Loud" and, Bovino, Greg: "I said rough 'em up, not kill them, jackass").

I, for one, am not on Tik Tok, so I don't really care, being an adult.

Stephen Miller

When I was in high school, maybe eleventh grade, we had a kid who, in retrospect, was kind of reminiscent of a young Stephen Miller. While he was never a hissing fascist slug, like Miller, he was similarly a bloviating asshole of unfortunate countenance, with a huge ego and an obvious lust for power.

Tonight I was reminded of him, and his Milleresque qualities. And it hit me: how could, essentially, the same personality, in two people, develop so differently over time? 

I googled that high school comrade several years back, and had a huge problem finding information. See, he had wanted to become a big time newscaster. I swear to Christ, he fucking idolized Bill Bonds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bonds). Worshipped him. Seemed to want to actually BE him. It was spooky-hilarious.

But, a big news anchor I did not find him having had become. In fact, I had a hell of a time finding much of anything, at all. I concluded things had not gone his way. Something must have happened to him, which didn't happen to Miller, and it knocked him from his power-lusting trajectory. He was also absolutely focused, like Miller, just not focused on sourcing many millions of body bags. He should have made SOME name for himself. Ego and determination can get a person places their natural talents could never get them, on their own.

Meanwhile, Miller, of whom there is enough old video to observe a true diabolical character arc over time, lands squarely on-target, emerging as the Nazi Nosferatu we all get the shivers from, today.

Ah, but then I recalled a core memory, and it seemed to describe a potential answer.

You see, to my knowledge Stephen Miller did not have what my big-nosed blunderbuss had: introverted, quiet me, driven batshit-insanely weary of this bloviating fathead, standing up at my desk, and telling him directly and loudly, that he was a "self-centered, egotistical megalomaniac."

I think maybe Stephen Miller needed someone to call him a fascist ghoul and a horror at a developmentally-plastic time of personal development. When things can have an impact.

Or, maybe he is just pissed about the fivehead.

Michigan ICE locations for protests

Protests need to block these facilities:

The primary Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Michigan is located at 333 Mt.  Elliott St, Detroit, MI 48207.  This office oversees immigration enforcement and deportation activities for both Michigan and Ohio.  It serves as the main contact point for ICE operations in the state. 

Other Key ICE Locations in Michigan

Grand Rapids Suboffice: A secondary ICE suboffice located in downtown Grand Rapids, handling regional enforcement matters.

North Lake Processing Center: A new 1,800-bed ICE detention facility in Baldwin, Lake County, opened in mid-June 2025.  It is operated by the GEO Group under a federal contract.

Immigration Court: The Detroit Immigration Court is located in the Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building in Detroit and handles all immigration hearings in the state. 

ISAP Offices: Two Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) offices operate in Detroit and Grand Rapids, managing alternatives to detention for individuals in deportation proceedings. 

Application Support Centers (ASCs): Two ASCs are located in Warren and Kentwood, where individuals provide biometrics (fingerprints, photos) for immigration applications. 

Detention Centers: Five designated ICE detention centers are located in Calhoun, Chippewa, Monroe, St.  Clair, and North Lake counties. 

Contact Information

Detroit Field Office: (313) 771-6601 | Contact via email

North Lake Processing Center Visits: (231) 876-4900

Detainee Locator: Use the ICE Detainee Locator or Vinelink for real-time updates.

We are on the very, very edge, and we all know what is coming.

Worried about a Civil War?

We are already there: the federal government has fired on and killed peaceful civilians exercising their rights under the Constitution that Trump daily drags across his anus.

The winners simply haven't started firing back.

Yet.

We are on the verge of active Civil War, but the war is already underway in planning and testing tactics.

This needs to end, but general protests on highly-visible public streets far from power won't do it.

We need to turn a gun on the economy of fascism.

There are more than enough citizens in this nation who are motivated and free to encircle ICE offices and prevent access.

There are more than enough citizens in this country who are motivated and free to encircle Enterprise and Hilton properties, making it impossible for ICE to make use of their services.

There are more than enough citizens EVEN AT CURRENT PROTESTS to simply encircle ICE and come down on them. Yes, it would be a life threatening thing for one to do with oneself, but the alternative is losing the nation.

If I had the clout, and the know-how, I would begin organizing such actions. But I am painfully ignorant, and by the time I figured it out, we'd be done anyhow.

I want liberal orgs to start organizing highly-specific blockages. Peacefully, unless ICE gets violent, then take each officer down with no additional thought. They knew what they were signing up for. Let them have it.

The way to bring ICE to a standstill is to block their offices, hotels, and car rental places.

Then, using that list of ICE officers, start blockading their homes, starting at the top of the organization. Make it impossible for the head of ICE to get home to eat with his family. Make it a pain for ICE to have to rent from small, local car rental places who will jack up the rates just for them, and cause thousands of hours of research into local rental outfits.

Do this and make the rest of corporate America rethink their devotion to MAGA.

If it doesn't work, a peaceful blockade of Wall Street: no traders in or out until Trump is gone.

There are millions of people in DC and NYC.

This is eminently doable. We just need leaders with a focus on real, tangible results, not leaders willing to accept flimsy negotiation promises as an answer. This admin has a demonstrable memory of two weeks, and will forget any promises they make, even if they meant them.

TL; DR: PEACEFULLY (until the other side gets violent) block ICE offices, the homes of ICE leadership, Wall Street, and the companies with which ICE does business.

But be prepared to get violent; bullies only answer to a boot to the head.

Collapse is coming

All the signs are pointing towards collapse.

Masked, anonymous agents, driving unmarked cars, abducting people off the street without warrants.

This achieves two ends. First, it terrorizes the people. This creates high levels of anxiety and powerlessness: a cowed people is a compliant people.

Second, it invites amateur criminals to adopt masks and other elements of secret police cosplay. There have been reports of masked men trying to pass themselves off as ICE or police.

In recent days, two masked, bulletproof vest-wearing thugs, posing as police, tried breaking into a home in Texas. The homeowner, being a Texan, gunned them down and sent them to St. Peter.

What *I* believe Trump (and most likely, actually Miller) is preparing for, is an armed citizen taking a shot at these masked "ICE" agents. This will be their justification for calling a national emergency and deploying military forces inside the country, against the people.

Personally, I think the best path forward is to do just this, and to keep doing it. Martial law can be declared, but ICE agents still have to roam the open to collect people. Martial law will not stop them from being gunned down.

Of course, this means civil war by the federal government against the people, and lots of death. But, this, I think, will be what finally cleanses this nation. People have a choice: cower and live in fear, or fight and die in power.

It has happened in stages so obvious, even a caveman could see them.

The ICE deployment. Meanwhile, Trumpstein festers in the open.

TIMELINE

The ICE hiring frenzy. Trumpstein trending.

Opening a concentration camp. Trump asks why people are still talking about Trumpstein.

Texas takes up massive gerrymandering. A man throws an italian sub at ICE/Natl Guard troops.

Ghislane Maxwell gets a Trump deal to be moved to a minimum security facility, in exchange for acquiting Trump in a DOJ interview. An LA police officer shoots a citizen nearly point-blank with a rubber bullet.

The National Guard deployed in DC. People are making Trumpstein a loud, central element of their protests.

Which brings us to now: Trump is threatening to deploy the Guard to major, non-MAGA cities. Trumpstein is taking up all the air in the room.

It all points to war on the people. To deny this is criminal.

And what are we to do?

What ARE we to do???

Just do it, Newsome.

Masked, unidentified and unidentifiable goons, invading cities and kidnapping people, are nothing more than criminal goons.

Governors need to get creative with interpretations of state laws applying to official id of officers, kidnapping, terrorism, etc., to arrest these goons and jail them.

Throw them in a cell and build camps to house them, in a tit-for-tat. Hold them in dessert squalor while the cases work their way through the legal system.

Barring governors growing balls and taking action, the only thing to protect us from this scourge is for citizens to take up arms against the goons, themselves. People will die, but some of them will be the goons, and, as we all know, when one goon in a squad drops, the other goons grow cold feet.

I'm looking at you, Newsome. If you want to be president, show us how far you are willing to protect the people from a tyrannical government. Deputize every citizen willing to defend California.

DO. IT.

Defund ICE and DHS, like Bill Kristol says.

I agree with Bill Kristol (a sentiment I never thought I would express): ICE and DHS should be defunded. Furthermore, I feel DHS never should have been created (it was an authoritarian wet dream), and ICE is naught but the American Stasi.

I remember when DHS was created, and I felt then as I feel now, that it would be bad for the nation: we already HAD numerous security agencies, and the only failure of 9/11 was that the sitting president didn't read his daily briefing, on August 6, 2001, that said OBL was planning a hit on America soon. But, we were in the throes of 9/11, and that gave people with authoritarian streaks a headwind and a hard-on for the securitate.

Of course, many years needed to pass before a group of thugs took control of it and ratcheted up the Stalinist aspects, to see what it could REALLY do. And now, here we are, a toad in a pot of hot water, wondering how we came to be boiled alive.

I know I come across as a crotchety windbag, but I was alarmed about things 24 years ago, and found myself distinctly in the minority. Most people shrugged and accepted the creation of a security state as a fait accompli.

I am tired of always being right about how the right wing wants nothing more than to destroy America. But, again, here we are.